West Bromwich Albion have some lost ground to recover from their 22nd position, and the job starts against Luton Town. Read more!
- West Bromwich Albion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Luton Town have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Championship
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
West Bromwich Albion form and stats
West Bromwich Albion's results here at The Hawthorns in the Championship have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 2 defeats. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for West Bromwich Albion, their manager Bruce and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
The fans are hoping that WBA will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Preston North End (placed 11th). Midfielder Swift was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Swift hit four key passes.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Swansea City (2-3).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how West Bromwich Albion have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 5 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Some goal stats: A review of the 12 most recent league matches shows that 10 of them had goals from both sides.
West Bromwich Albion have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Hawthorns with 11 goals in 6 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the WBA defense is not exactly impregnable. 10 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Luton Town form and stats
3-1-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Luton Town in their Championship matches away. Luton Town have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
There were no winners in Luton Town's previous match, the home game that ended 3-3 vs Huddersfield Town (placed 23rd). As you can tell from the result, the match against Huddersfield Town was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Adebayo, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.63. Adebayo scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Hull City.Luton are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.
Luton Town find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. Luton Town are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
WBA-Luton Town H2H statistics last seven meetings regardless of arena: West Bromwich Albion five wins, Luton Town one win, one draw. four of these seven matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  C. Morris 6 goals |   K. Ahearne-Grant 3 goals |  J. Wallace 3 goals |
West Bromwich Albion missing players
Luton Town missing players
| West Bromwich Albion | Luton Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 18 | 10 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 92% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 83% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 83% | 83% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 50% |
| 8% | 17% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 40% | 33% |
| 17% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 7 | 9.3 | 10.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.4 | 6 |
| 3.1 | 2.3 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 7 | 5.7 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.8 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 17.5 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 11.4 | 13.8 |
| 4.6 | 6 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
| 31% | 31% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | 29% |
| 8.8 | 7.2 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 13 | 10.8 |
| 3 | 3.3 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.8 | 2.5 |
- All of Luton Town's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Luton Town have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Championship
- Luton Town have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Luton Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- West Bromwich Albion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- West Bromwich Albion have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- West Bromwich Albion have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheffield United | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 24 |
| 2 | Norwich City | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 3 | Reading | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -2 | 22 |
| 4 | Queens Park Rangers | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 5 | Burnley | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 19 |
| 6 | Swansea City | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | Blackburn Rovers | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 18 |
| 8 | Sunderland | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 9 | Luton Town | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| 10 | Watford | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 11 | Preston North End | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 12 | Wigan Athletic | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | -1 | 16 |
| 13 | Rotherham United | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| 14 | Bristol City | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 15 | Cardiff City | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 16 | Millwall | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 17 | Hull City | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 14 |
| 18 | Middlesbrough | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 13 |
| 19 | Birmingham City | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 20 | Stoke City | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -4 | 13 |
| 21 | Blackpool | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 12 |
| 22 | West Bromwich Albion | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 8 |
| 24 | Coventry City | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 7 |
- West Bromwich Albion
- Express & Star - (local newspaper)
- Boing - (supporter site)
- Luton Town
- Luton Today - (local newspaper)
